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Primers on Imprinting

So, one of the goals of this blog is to provide an introduction to the phenomenon of genomic imprinting. This is going to be assembled through a series of posts. They can all be found by searching under either the "primers" tag or the "genomic imprinting" tag. But, those searches will also bring up other material, and will present it in reverse chronological order, which may not be the most useful thing.

Here, I have attempted to organize them in a pedagogical order, which is mostly forward chronological, with a brief description of what each post covers. The goal is to provide something that is comprehensible to the reader with no background in genetics, or even biology. At the same time, I hope that there is enough information to serve as a resource, or at least a jumping-off point for the geneticist who is just getting their feet wet in imprinting and epigenetics.

Do you have specific questions about imprinting? Is there something that you've read about or heard about that you would like explained? Would you like that explanation to include pop-culture references? Drop me an e-mail, and I'll see what I can do.

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